On 9/7/15, Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote: > David Wright a écrit : >> >>>From man apt-cache: >> >> -p, --pkg-cache >> Select the file to store the package cache. The package >> cache is the primary cache used by all operations. >> Configuration Item: Dir::Cache::pkgcache. >> >> This appears to be the Right Way. > > I doubt it, since apt-cache is not involved in downloading .deb files, > so it's probably not the same cache. According to man apt-get, the > correct configuration item would rather be Dir::Cache::Archives.
*hmmmmmmmm........* In seeing David's, I was already looking at "man apt-cache". Saw where his is quoted from and was thinking...... #1) Ok, will have to test drive that so it's in the back of my mind if it's ever needed. Then next kneejerk reaction was.... #2) *WHY* are they using the term "file" and not "directory"?? That doesn't sound right. The term "files" is NOT interchangeable with the term "directory", and it seems like a technical writer would know that distinction. Yeah, I know, "we" are the technical writers for manpages, but still....... the file versus. directory distinction is a very basic starting point in understanding Debian. :) Moving on, now I'm looking at apt-get's manpage and thinking... Ok, do what?! Doesn't that create some kind of conflict with apt-cache?? So I just kept flipping back and forth between the two man pages....... and trying to really read and *comprehend* apt-cache's one especially...... Is apt-cache's maybe really meaning *FILE*, as in each specific .deb file, and not directory (aka "folder" in "other" operating systems)? Just scratching my head out loud........ Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs... off at the Fingertips on occasion.. *
